Jake Niall
Adam Goodes has become a political football in a discussion of race relations. It is not a role he sought, any more than he invited the mindless booing that prompted his withdrawal from this weekend's game.

Caroline Wilson
The AFL's belated public reaction to what has become a watershed issue for the game could be best summed up by Gillon McLachlan's measured Monday media conference in which he politely asked fans to refrain from booing Adam Goodes and described the reasons for the booing as "complicated".